“His announcements about military support for Ukraine do not stand up to scrutiny,” said the CDU chairman and Union faction leader. The Union has therefore lost “all confidence” in the commitments of the federal government. “We have to have a public debate about how trustworthy our government is in our own country, but also and especially in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Proposals are now coming from the ranks of the FDP and the Greens to “supply Ukraine directly with tanks because the exchange of rings announced by Scholz with other countries has become a dead end,” Merz continued. “That’s also a daily sign of distrust in your own chancellor.”
Merz travels to Poland on Wednesday, where a meeting with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is planned. According to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Merz wants to address, among other things, the problems with the tank ring exchange with Poland.